mr_eel

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by mr_eel 16y ago
Not even close to right; pretty much everyone immediately hated Vista, but the iPhone 4 is selling like mad and people seem to love it. Also, it seems pretty stupid for an exec to basically be saying "Hey, I think this product will turn out
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Seriously; as soon as someone makes a phone better than the iPhone, I'll buy it. I've used Android phones and I feel they have a lot of potential, but the lack the polish, the fit-and-finish that the iPhone has. Frankly; I don't enjoy using
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Well personally I care about good craft and elegance. These are subjective to be sure. But I'm immediately suspicious of the statement "who cares if it works?". As if any old rubbish will do. I have a pact with myself; I'll stop working wit
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by mr_eel 16y ago
It's a perfectly innocent photograph. I don't understand the point of this post. If you think there is something wrong with it, maybe you should think carefully about how you perceive it. Why exactly do you think it is notable?
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by mr_eel 16y ago
This is the kind of static site generator I've always wanted. I'm keen to check it out now.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
What a load of tosh. Picking _one_ example of a person unable to find the utility in having an iPad and extrapolating it to everyone who purchased one. It's a weak premise with nothing to back it up.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
They knew it belonged to Apple. They paid someone in order to obtain property that didn't belong to the seller. They expose and mock the poor sod that lost it. An extremely poor performance on Gizmodo's part. I appreciate their excitement a
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by mr_eel 17y ago
I largely agree with what you say. I don't want to see anyone exploited in the sex-industry, but nor do I believe that making it illegal is a solution. Making it illegal increases the risks, creates opportunities for criminal concerns -- pi
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by mr_eel 17y ago
Or maybe it simply wasn't very good? It need not be some prejudice against new technologies. I'd say that the Academy has a big soft spot for fancy new film tricks, so in this case, it's good to see they weren't dazzled into choosing it for
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by mr_eel 17y ago
The Pixel Qi would go a long way on the battery life. I’m curious about the Tegra tho; the suggestion that it’s has better power-usage characteristics than Apple’s A4. I only know that both are ARM chips. Does it have any effect on performa
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by mr_eel 17y ago
It's totally doable, but I wonder how difficult it might be to get going? LPG motor vehicles are common here in Australia. The main issue is infrastructure, but even then vehicles can be dual-fuel. That minimises the risk of vehicles being
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by mr_eel 17y ago
From a strict interpretation of the law, these blogs are violating copyright. They are distributing copyrighted material without permission. So, really Google in this case are doing the right thing. However, I consider music blogs like thes
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by mr_eel 17y ago
"It has been done before. Do you remember Prodigy? CompuServe? AOL? MySpace?" Yeah. Or Friendster. Of course it could happen, but my point is that it is too early to tell what impact Buzz will have. "Google has a fair chance of beating Face
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by mr_eel 17y ago
It's the users. Facebook's value isn't going to vary any unless there is some migration from Facebook to Buzz. What exactly does Buzz offer that Facebook doesn't? What kind of recognition will it have? This is all very interesting, but it's
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by mr_eel 17y ago
It helps to understand that the exclusion of Flash from the iPhone OS -- while arbitrary -- is reasoned, even if you don't agree with it. Many argue that Flash is unstable. To be sure, most of this is anecdotal at this point, but I think th
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by mr_eel 17y ago
The basic idea is adding methods to single instances. It _does_ work. What you're talking about is sugar. You could easily create a factory which manipulates instances as they are created.
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by mr_eel 17y ago
Agreed. Not to mention the article's lack of substance beyond existing news reports.
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by mr_eel 17y ago
"one reason to use flash over ajax is flash is faster at rendering large amounts of data in a grid:" I'm a little confused about the point you're trying to make here, given that Ajax is a method for retrieving data from the server with Java
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by mr_eel 17y ago
In this case I point out revenue because that's the number Apple has been touting and not market-share. And although we can only speculate on margins, they're doubtless very good.
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by mr_eel 17y ago
Revenue, revenue, revenue. Apple haven't even bothered to talk about market-share, because they _don't_ care. They only care about how much revenue they get. Market-influences that obviously, but they're willing to remain in a smaller porti
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by mr_eel 17y ago
My argument still stands. This is only matters if you can argue that substantial numbers of people say "OMG it has Flash, _now_ definitely want one". The question is one of intent. Did they want to intentionally want to make people believe
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by mr_eel 17y ago
Don't people have better things to do? Apple could just as easily argue that they are displaying a version of the homepage that doesn't use flash — there are other plausible explanations for how interactive elements or video are displayed.
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by mr_eel 17y ago
Yet, in the same article the author mentions Delicious Library's influence on the design of Classics. Rip off, my behind. It's an _obvious_ metaphor. Commenters on the article even point out other examples like Shelfari.
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by mr_eel 17y ago
The iPad is optimised for these three things; simplicity, battery life and cost. Multitasking and background apps kill battery life. Root access and other desktop features aren't simple. More disk space would be expensive -- being flash me
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by mr_eel 17y ago
That's a good example. I agree with you. In that case Wikileaks was clearly unethical.
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by mr_eel 17y ago
The whole point of the original article is that changing technologies are allowing smaller scale businesses to enter markets that were previously denied to them. It's _not_ about changing how existing hobby industries work. The author has f
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by mr_eel 17y ago
"Everything you write makes sense, but only in a world where music prices aren't set by psychotic rights owners" Ouch. That's really unfair. Those sorts of prices are demanded by independents as well, including unsigned artists — look at in
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by mr_eel 17y ago
Well it might be more useful for your argument if you discussed particular instances where wikileaks has published material that you consider hidden legitimately.
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by mr_eel 17y ago
"Digital music pricing has such small profit margins that only offering a discounted item is infeasible." This doesn't make sense to me. Since there is no physical distribution — thus less material cost and middle-men — digital music can be
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by mr_eel 17y ago
I love how crackers try to justify what they're doing as a public service. Yes, they're absolutely right when they say only competent people should admin servers, but there are more polite ways to inform the server admins. This is just typi

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